Collar attachment



May 20, 1947.

J. \N'. LESS COLLAR ATTACHMENT Filed Obt. 15, 1945 3mm Jik2es5,

Patented May 20, 1947 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE COLLAR ATTACHMENT Joseph W. Less, Clinton, Iowa Application October 15, 1945, Serial No. 622,473

4 Claims. I

This invention relates to attachments for attached collars of shirts for the purpose of holding the collar-points to the shirt bosom.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple spring arrangement, and including an impalement point, the whole of which can be maintained between the folds of the collar of a shirt, while readily insertable and removable therefrom.

That the invention may be fully understood the appended drawing is provided to form part hereof wherein- Figure l is a front elevation of collar of the attached type together with a separate attachment in broken lines, for each collar-point.

Figure 2 is a front elevation of part of a collar showing the attachment of the present invention applied in a slightly different position but shown in broken lines.

Figure 3 is an elevation, in transverse section, of a collar and the attachment applied thereto.

Figure 4 is a side elevation of part of the attachment, greatly enlarged, to show structure.

Figure 5 is a rear elevation of the same, or as viewed from the left of Figure 4, and

Figure 6 is an enlarged cross section of a snap or holding arrangement shown in Figures 4 and 5, taken on line 6-6 of Figure 4.

In the figures I denotes a collar of the attached type, each point of which includes an attachment of the present invention but best shown in Figures 4 and 5 wherein a coil spring, in the present instance, is indicated at Z and which is preferably closely wound in a helix and tapered toward one end. Said spring in its longest axis is normally straight but in use in the collar may be arcuately bent as in Figure 1, though straight as in Figure 2.

Depending from the large end of the spring is a collar-point engaging structure. This comprises a body portion 3 having an extension 4 to enter the spring where it and the latter are suitably afdxed one to the other. Said portion terminates in a point 5, above which, however, it is flattened to receive a companion member 6, the two being pivotally connected as at 1, said companion memher being likewise provided with a point 8, the points lying at opposite sides of the pivot for the two. Again the member 6 has an arm 9 which may carry a snap arrangement l0, Figure 6, adapted to clip together the named two members 3 and B on occasion, it being noted that in the swing of the member 6 on its companion 3 that the points 5 and 8 will, in effect, approach each other or recede according to the direction of swing.

The last described structure, by its points, is adapted to engage the collar-point I, Figure 4, it being observed that in the open position of the members shown the said points after engaging upon the collar, and then spread apart, in latching together the members 3 and 6, are embedded in the collar.

In use, the spring is inserted between the collar portions and since the latter approach each other toward the fold of the collar the spring to some extent will wedge therein and will be firmly seated.

Following this the points 5 and 8 having been brought one toward the other and engaged with the collar as described, the collar-point is drawn toward the bosom by spring action.

It is well known that a coil spring normally straight throughout will, after being laterally flexed, return to its straight or normal position and naturally the more still the wire making up the spring the greater the force in returning from a flexed form.

This tendency to straighten, therefore, is to draw the engaged collar point toward the shirt bosom, as the desire herein, and whether the spring has the position shown in Figure 1, or the position of Figure 2 the result is substantially the same.

Naturally, the spring when inserted between the collar portions will be crowded against that portion thereof erected on the bosom and hence the spring in regainin a straight form will approach the bosom, drawing the collar point in that direction.

I claim:

1. An attachment for an attached collar of a shirt including a portion to abut the collar in the fold thereof and having a depending extension terminating in an impalement point, and a part pivotally mounted on the extension also termihating in an impalement point, said points being disposed in positions whereby by manual pressure upon them while in engagement with the collarpoint they are spread apart to jointly impale said. collar-point in opposite directions.

2. An attachment for an attached collar of a shirt including a portion to abut the collar in the fold thereof and having a depending extension terminating in an impalement point, and a part pivotally mounted on the extension also terminating in an impalement point, said points being disposed in position whereby by manual pressure upon them while in engagement with the collarpoint they are spread apart to jointly impale said collar-point in opposite directions, a means to 3 maintain the points in their impalement positions.

3. An attachment for an attached collar of a shirt. includin a member of helically wound wire laterally flexible adapted at one extremity to lie within the fold of said collar and including a depending extension having an impalement point, and a member pointed at one end mounted on said depending extension adapted to be manually actuated tov swing said point toward and away from the first named point, the two points normally extending in opposite directions away from each other in directions substantially paralleling,

4. The invention defined in claim 3, including means to fix the named parts with respect to each other in their impalement positions.

JOSEPH W. LESS.

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